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Located on the campus of the University of Northern Iowa, Price Lab - NU High School is a PK-12 school serving the state of Iowa.
This blog houses reflections of and resources for students as they journey to an understanding of Geospatial Technologies.
Price Laboratory School - NU High School
Located on the campus of the University of Northern Iowa, Price Lab - NU High School is a PK-12 school serving the state of Iowa.
Journey
GIS Links
Assigned Reading Articles
Data Sources
- U.S. Census Data
- U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Imagery and Aerial Photos
- America View (Imagery and Aerial Photos)
- National Atlas of the United States
- Geospatial One-Stop (National - Federal)
- ESRI Data
- Black Hawk County
- UNI GeoTREE
- Iowa Geographic Map Server
- Iowa DNR GIS (State)
- Iowa Geospatial Data Clearinghouse (State)
8 comments:
This went well. The 4th graders were a lot smarter with google earth then I expected them to be. They had no problem finding the ten places I choose. When they found the location the wanted to zoom in and click on the pictures. I think their view on spatial thinking is a lot different then ours. They wanted to see pictures rather then the location and they wanted to zoom in as far as possible.
The fourth graders that I taught were eager to learn about and use google earth. They were especially excited to see things that they had seen before or knew about. They also wanted too zoom in as much as they could and sometimes did not get a clear image.
the fourth graders that i taught were quite intelligent and knew a lot about geography, this surprised me because i did not expect them to know a great deal about this topic. This activity taught me how to teach and convey my knowlodge about spatial thinking to other people. It also showed me that younger people have just as good spatial thinking capabilities as any of us do, but haven't yet developed a sense of it nor know that it exists in them
working with the forth graders was a great experience. one of the students that i worked with knew exactly what he was doing the other not so much. they said that they really enjoyed the scavenger hunt activity and over all were very cooperative and wanted to learn. spacial thinking came into affect when they were looking at locations for the scavenger hunt because they wanted to see things closer. they started to figure out how to use the 3-D attribute and really enjoyed figuring out how to see all the different vantage points to certain locations and sites.
I learned that they zoomed in a lot and looked at the colors that were the brightest. They looked at where the colorful labels were and these were the places that they would guess right away for the ten places that i chose. I noticed that one of my students was upset that his house was not on the location that Google earth said it was. i think that most of the students got how to use google earth pretty quickly but they never used the tool bars on the side they always jus tried to scroll to the place that they wanted to see
The 4th graders used spatial thinking by looking at the pictures of the landmarks they had to find, and then they determine the exact point of the location. They had to look at the shapes of the structures in the aerial view and then pinpoint which shape that looked exactly like the landmark. They also look at the color and determine if it was the landmark they were trying to find. This worked when helping them find their landmarks.
This experience with grades seem to work a lot better then I thought would. The came in here, were able to use a computer, figure out the controls, and type pretty well. That exceeded my expatiations by far. Then they also amazed me with their knowledge of the U.S. and World. They could take my clues and figure out what the place was just by reading what I gave them for clues. I only had to give them the answer once or twice besides that they knew the rest. Then with Google Earth they picked up the controls quickly and started working. They found the places I was looking for without a problem. But there were time when I had to help them with the typing or moving the screen so they go see the specific better. So I learned that everyone really does think spatial, but it is easier for us to understand spatial thinking and geospatial technologies. This is because we a older and have been taking a class were it helps to understand these new ways of thinking.
The fourth graders actually caught on to Google Earth very quickly. After we went through the ten places that I had them look up, they were quick to think of more fun places to look up. For example, their houses, the White House, and buildings in New York City. It was nice that they seemed interested in Google Earth, and even said that they wanted to download it on their computers at home. The 4th graders seemed to not be very patient when using Google Earth. When zooming in , it seemed like they weren't very good at spatial thinking because oftentimes, they zoomed in too much, or couldn't tell which directions things were in. I learned that they sometimes don't have the ability to detect where they are on Google Earth, without using the labels, and zooming far out.
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